Su Xin's life actually has many choices, just like he resigned from Longgang Company to do business in the sea, he can do whatever he wants. But no one expected that he would actually inherit his father's business and go to brew vinegar.
Banqiao mountains and rivers are beautiful, Su Xin's vinegar mill was built on the side of the river on the side of the river, if it is not the vinegar jar in the yard looming, I thought this was whose back garden. A small vegetable field is lush, with red flowers and green trees, rockery koi, like a pleasant landscape painting. His brewing "workshop" is hidden in this picture scroll. According to his own body shape, Su Xin gave the vinegar brewing workshop a very grounded name - Hancheng Su FatZi Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., which was registered in 2016, and the main product "Jiuweifang Rice Vinegar".
The predecessor of the company is "Xue Qu Vinegar Factory", which was founded in 1987 and is a veritable old workshop, the original site is located in the banpo of the old Yaozhuang slope, and the elderly are called "banpo vinegar factory". In 2014, because of the construction of the Jincheng Homestead, Xue Qu Vinegar Factory was demolished, and Su Xin's father wanted to take advantage of the demolition to put down the cause of making koji vinegar and raise his life. But Su Xin did not give his old father a chance, and returned to Hancheng from northern Shaanxi to find a suitable place for vinegar.
From 2015 to 2016, after visiting, examining and surveying various places, and comprehensively considering the main factors affecting product quality such as water source, light, temperature difference and environment, Su Xin found a good place in Berlin Village, Banqiao Town, which is flat and open, with sufficient light and surrounded by mountains and water. "Xue Qu Vinegar Mill has a history of more than a hundred years, not willing to disappear so quietly, his father looks very open-minded, in fact, he is not willing to give up." Therefore, I want to take advantage of the good policies of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and then build a vinegar factory, continue the traditional craftsmanship, and bring good products to the public. Su Xin said.
On January 16, 2016, the new vinegar factory began to be built, from leveling the land to entering the mountain brick by brick, building a vinegar workshop, and entering the factory with facilities and equipment... Su Xin stared at each link on the spot, for two years, watching the land in front of him from barren to vibrant, step by step into the appearance of dreams, Su Xin was full of emotions: "In 2018, the company stepped on the right track and began to produce rice vinegar. ”
It is said that it is a workshop, but in fact, it is a matrix of hundreds of vinegar cylinders arranged, and there is no advanced production equipment. "We have always adhered to the ancient method of brewing vinegar, only the use of machines for raw material processing, but the real vinegar must rely on manual over and over again to see and stir." Su Xin said.
Traditional hand-brewed vinegar is a hard work, requiring a large number of heavy loads, repeating an action hundreds of times, working at high temperatures, etc. His father was well aware of the hardships involved, so he refused when Su Xin proposed to make vinegar. "Just as a vegetable seller doesn't want his children to take over and sell vegetables, my father wants me to have a decent job, and the craftsman is too hard." Su Xin said that the old man could not resist Su Xin's insistence after all, "Now, he has come to Banqiao Town again and become the chief vinegar master of the vinegar factory." ”
To brew vinegar well, in addition to the raw materials, we must pay more attention to the details. "Jiuweifang" rice vinegar selects high-quality millet, corn, barley, wheat bran and other grains, through the exclusive patent technology of soaking, boiling, pouring, fermenting, drying, etc., from material selection, cleaning, soaking, crushing, saccharification, pouring juice, sugar extraction to koji sealing cylinder, alcoholic acetate fermentation, after 9 processes, in order to produce a cylinder of clear and mellow rice vinegar. This is also the origin of the name "Jiuweifang".
"We combine the brewing process of aged vinegar and rice vinegar, combined with exclusive patented brewing technology, using the original handmade red clay cylinder sealing, alcoholic fermentation and acetate fermentation are carried out simultaneously, and after 100 days of night dew, natural fermentation. Not only does it have the old flavor of old vinegar, but it also retains the original color and brightness of rice vinegar. Su Xin said, "And it is brewed by pure ancient method, without any additives, and the older it is, the more fragrant it is." ”
After three years of exploration and development, the company has realized the transformation from a small workshop to a small business. "Xue Qu Vinegar Fang" vinegar brewing process and "Jiuwei Fang" brand perfect integration, in addition to jiuwei fang brand handmade grain brewing vinegar, the company also produces Su Fat zi brand spices, condiments and other series of products, exported to Shanghai, Xinjiang all over the world, favored by consumers. At the same time, the company actively responded to the government's call, adhered to the principle of "government guidance, enterprise operation, social participation, and farmers' benefit", helped more than 40 poor households in Banqiao Town, and distributed 1200 yuan in dividends for each household every year.
In 2019, "Jiuweifang Brand Brewing Vinegar" won the highest popularity award of the Hancheng PepperCorn Conference, and on October 25 of the same year, it won the "Houji Award" of the 26th China Yangling Agricultural High-tech Achievements Expo. In 2020, the company was awarded the "Shaanxi Province Advanced Unit of Quality and Credibility" and "Shaanxi Province Product Quality Complaint-free Demonstration Unit" by the Shaanxi Provincial Product Quality Management Center, and Su Xin was also awarded the "Hancheng Youth May Fourth Medal" in 2021.
Seven things to open the door in the morning, chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea. People's lives are inseparable from vinegar, Su Xin will also inherit the ingenuity spirit of his father's vinegar, use ingenuity to confirm the original intention, between the Banqiao mountains and rivers, watch the sunrise and sunset, brew a pot of good vinegar.
Source: Hancheng Daily (reporter Cheng Han text/photo)
Shaanxi Net Hancheng Station (Editor Wang Meina)